I was told by a friend who spoke one on one with an industry insider who does a lot of hiring for influencer campaigns, that the problem with Black women is that we change our hair too frequently and brands don’t know what they’re going to get. People are very afraid of the unknown, especially when it comes to the…
I had a reader ask me via DM what I thought about the whole bribery college scandal that included actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy their children’s way into prestigious colleges and universities. Honestly, I’m not surprised. It’s white privilege at work like it’s always been. Money talks and bullshit walks and…
I love living in New York. One of the main reasons I love living here is because it’s a magnet for young black women who write. Writing here is an actual career that one can pursue an actually make a decent living doing so. When I told my parents I wanted to switch my major to Journalism in undergrad they…
It’s International Women’s Day and I wanted to write something that would speak to women, especially women who let fear determine the the decisions they make. I was that woman. I was that woman for most of my adult life. I am just now starting to change my mind set and make decisions based on what makes me happy instead…
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and for the first time in years, I don’t have to work today. I always thought that it was strange that all of the places I’ve been employed at my adult life, never recognized this historic and monumental day. I always felt a sense of bewilderment smothered in anger that I was working…
[one_half padding=”0 15px 0 0″] [/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 0 0 15px”] I’m all about self-care and even more so now that I spend the majority of my time at home. It’s a huge adjustment going from working for someone else for all of my teenage and adult life to recently working for myself. It can be pretty stressful making sure I…
